Yang Tao chatted with Pu Lin for a while before letting him leave. Then he called Pang Zheng and Yang Tao to the warehouse. After taking out 20 riding skills books from the warehouse, he took out the 2-star long-handled sword from his backpack and handed it to Pang Zheng, so that he could select some people with good quality while training the recruits. Since there were not many horses in the village, he could only transfer 20 people first. In the future, the cavalry was temporarily led by Pang Zheng.

Yang Tao himself also took a riding skill book from the warehouse to learn it. Afterwards, Yang Tao gathered all the soldiers in the village except Pang Zheng and advanced towards the forests in the northwest. Yang Tao planned to explore the intermediate bandit camp. After all, it has been nearly 20 days since it has passed and it is time to explore the situation. If possible, try to clean up some bandits.

After wading through mountains and rivers along the way, Yang Tao and others arrived at the ravine where they had discovered the bandits at noon. They saw that the ravine was dozens of meters wide, winding up, and the peaks on both sides stood tall. Yang Tao and his men walked carefully in the ravine full of grass and trees, and soon they entered a pine forest.

There is a gentle slope in this pine forest. Yang Tao led his people to climb up the gentle slope and looked forward, and hurriedly greeted the people behind him and carefully retreated to the gentle slope with him. Then Yang Tao slowly climbed up to the top of the gentle slope and looked forward quietly with the cover of plants and trees. He saw several teams of bandits not far from the pine forest in front, patrolling nearby in groups of 10 people.

Yang Tao looked at their equipment carefully. When he saw these bandits wearing rags and straw sandals, Yang Tao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. These were just a junior bandits, and the nearly 300 soldiers brought by Yang Tao were enough to solve these bandits. However, just in case, Yang Tao still approached some more under the cover of the pine trees, and carefully confirmed that there were no intermediate bandits, and then carefully returned to the gentle slope and rushed up with the soldiers, solving the dozens of bandits.

After packing up the items that fell on the ground, Yang Tao and others advanced into the pine forest. After a while, they reached the edge of the pine forest. Yang Tao signaled the people behind him to stop and look out of the pine forest. The view outside the pine forest was relatively wide, and there was a small flat ground in front, which was obviously cleared by bandits. There was a mountain road in the flat ground, which passed by the pine forest, and then entered the depths of the forest. However, when Yang Tao saw the hillside, his pupils shrank, and he saw an arrow tower on the hillside. He could see from a distance that there seemed to be some people on the arrow tower, and he should be archers.

"No wonder, the bandits were cleared out here." Yang Tao thought to himself when he saw the scene in front of him.

Judging from the height of the Arrow Tower, which is no more than 3 meters, this is a primary arrow tower. However, this arrow tower is stuck on the main road to enter the mountain. If you want to enter the mountain, you must first pull out the arrow tower. However, the nearby terrain is a bit difficult for Yang Tao.

There is only a flat ground with weeds growing from the Arrow Tower to the pine forest. Anyone will be exposed nakedly to the sight of the Arrow Tower if they go there. Even the archer on the Arrow Tower is the lowest level 1 archer, the height bonus of the Arrow Tower will be much longer than that of the archers of Yang Tao and others. If you want to pull the Arrow Tower, you may have to attack the hillside. However, that will inevitably cause a large number of casualties, which is not worth the loss. Yang Tao can only think about whether there is any other way.

Yang Tao traveled through the peaks on both sides of the ravine, hoping to find a way to solve the situation in front of him. But after searching near the peaks on both sides for a long time, he still couldn't find a way to bypass the Arrow Tower. The only feasible thing is to climb up the mountain and take down the Arrow Tower. However, although the mountains on both sides are not steep, the plants and trees are sparse. If a few people go up the mountain, they may not be discovered by the bandits on the Arrow Tower. Yang Tao will definitely not be able to go there, and he will be in an extremely passive situation.

"It seems that I can only fight one." After Yang Tao took his men back to the pine forest, he thought about it and was really unwilling to retreat before he even saw the bandit's nest. Then he picked out all the third-level archers from all the soldiers. A total of 6 people followed Yang Tao to climb the mountain and pull out the archers in the arrow tower, while the rest of the soldiers were on standby in the pine forest.

After arranging the soldiers, Yang Tao approached the left peak from the pine forest and began to climb. Since the grass and trees on the mountain were not lush, in order to prevent bandits from discovering, Yang Tao could only climb carefully and slowly.

After more than an hour of crawling, Yang Tao and others successfully approached less than 50 meters away from the Arrow Tower. But they could not get closer again, otherwise they would definitely be discovered by the people on the Arrow Tower. However, Yang Tao and others are now at the same location as the archers on the Arrow Tower, and the distance is now enough for Yang Tao and the archers to attack the Arrow Tower.

Yang Tao checked the situation on the arrow tower for a while.

There are 10 archers on this arrow tower. Yang Tao carefully identified the archers on the arrow tower for a while and confirmed that there were no archers of level 4 or above. He took out the hardwood longbow in his backpack and was about to attack. He suddenly found that there seemed to be people hiding in the hillside where the arrow tower was. Yang Tao quickly stopped and carefully pushed the grass and looked carefully for a while, confirming that there were indeed a large number of bandits hidden on the hillside opposite, with hundreds of people expected to be.

Because the grass and trees on the hillside are relatively lush, the bandits hide in it. Yang Tao did not discover the existence of this group of bandits just now. However, this situation is a bit difficult for Yang Tao. Even if Yang Tao now solves the 10 archers on the arrow tower, there must be archers on the hillside. Yang Tao and the others alone cannot solve so many archers. Once discovered by the bandits, Yang Tao and several archers will not escape the bad luck.

"It seems that it is impossible to capture this arrow tower without paying some price." Yang Tao thought for a while and could only send a soldier to inform people in the forest to attack the opposite hillside.

After the messenger left, Yang Tao and the remaining five third-level archers waited quietly.

More than an hour later, a soldier ran out of the pine forest below. It was the nearly 300 soldiers brought by Yang Tao. However, no one in the soldiers led the troops, and the formation was scattered towards the opposite hillside. At this time, Yang Tao saw the people on the opposite hillside stirring, and then the bandits hiding on the hillside began to rush towards Yang Tao's men and horses under the hillside. Seeing that the bandits had left the Arrow Tower and there were only 10 archers left in the Arrow Tower, knowing that the time was right, he opened his bow and shot an arrow at a bandit on the Arrow Tower who looked like a third-level archer. The archer was seriously injured in an instant.

After being attacked, the bandits on the arrow tower were a little confused. Taking advantage of this short time, Yang Tao and several 3-level archers quickly shot these bandits. When the bandits archers discovered Yang Tao, Yang Tao and others had killed three 1-2-level archers, and there were only 5 1-2-level archers left on the arrow tower to fight back. As for the 3-level archers, they were seriously injured due to Yang Tao's key attention, and they were unable to shoot arrows. Even if the accuracy of the archers was barely affected. The remaining 1-2-level archers were not shot that far away and fell halfway through the way. Yang Tao was equipped with a black iron-level hardwood longbow and could attack the archers. In just a few minutes, all the bandits and archers on the arrow tower were shot.

Afterwards, Yang Tao asked the five third-level archers behind him to go to the Arrow Tower, occupy the Arrow Tower and support the soldiers under the hillside, and went down the mountain to command the soldiers to fight.

When he arrived at the foot of the mountain, Yang Tao saw that although his soldiers were nearly three times that of the other party, he could not take down these bandits for a long time. So he looked at the equipment of these bandits and found that more than a dozen bandits were wearing cloth clothes and shoes. Only then did he realize that Yang Tao's soldiers had met the middle-level bandits.

Yang Tao quickly arranged dozens of third-level soldiers to besiege the dozen intermediate-level bandits. He withdrew from the battle and found a high ground, and took out a hardwood longbow and shot at the intermediate-level bandits in the crowd. Since these bandits were already mid-level soldiers and were higher than Yang Tao and others, even if there were several third-level soldiers, it would not be easy to siege them. Fortunately, Yang Tao had a 5-star black iron-level hardwood longbow, which could cause considerable damage to these intermediate-level bandits even under the suppression of the ranks, reducing the pressure on Yang Tao's soldiers.

After the battle was over, the situation was better than Yang Tao expected, only more than 10 soldiers were killed without a large number of casualties. After the soldiers cleared the battlefield, Yang Tao took his men to the hillside.

There are many thatched huts behind the hillside arrow tower. After Yang Tao asked his soldiers to search, he counted the harvest and obtained a few silver in terms of money. As for the equipment, most of them were ordinary-level equipment of 1-3 stars, and there were fewer equipment of 4-5 stars. Yang Tao found a good 5-star ordinary-level spear among them.

Long spear (normal): 5 stars of quality, 9 required strength, additional gun attack 39-47, 1, life 260, power 80, additional special effects: level 1 combo, instantly increase the holder's attack speed during the next attack, lasting 1 second, the number of combos is determined by the holder's strength, and the trigger probability is 2%.

This spear is good, much better than Yang Tao's original spear, so he replaced it with this spear.

It was getting late at this time, so Yang Tao arranged for soldiers to spend the night in this Arrow Tower camp, and tomorrow they would continue to go to the bandits' nest deep in the forest.
Chapter completed!